At the very least, this way Saddam Hussein would be denied access to his biological and chemical weapons programmes.
The British dossier's most controversial assertion was that Saddam had biological and chemical weapons that could be deployed within 45 minutes.
So he's in control of the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs.
Saddam Hussein will have no deterrence to using his biological and chemical weapons if Iraq is invaded with the sole objective of killing him.
While in that job he headed efforts to reduce threats to the United States from weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Some reports suggest the facility could be Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Centre, believed to be the state organisation responsible for developing biological and chemical weapons.
The United States accuses Iraq of trying to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions dating back to the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
An October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate warned that Iraq was pursuing weapons of mass destruction, had reconstituted its nuclear weapon program and had biological and chemical weapons.
There has always been the fear that they were intent on developing biological and chemical weapons, that they may still have that intention, if not the wherewithal.
Castro has the ability to deliver biological and chemical weapons with military aircraft, various unconventional techniques, and perhaps, missile systems increasingly available in the international black market.
Our deterrence still provides protection from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons attacks by states, more of which possess these capacities than did at the end of the Cold War.
Worse yet, the biological and chemical weapons conventions obliged signatories with advanced biotech and chemical manufacturing industries to share the technology with others who did not have such capabilities.
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While I never believed Saddam could have concealed a continued nuclear program, I too thought there could still be some biological and chemical weapons left from Iraq's war with Iran.
While I never believed Saddam could have concealed a continued a nuclear program, I too thought there could still be some biological and chemical weapons left from Iraq's war with Iran.
The Jerusalem Post said the description of the facility fitted that of Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Centre, believed to be the state organisation responsible for developing biological and chemical weapons.
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We recognized the grave risks posed by proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and their means of delivery and acknowledged the need to cooperate to reduce potential threats to legitimate trade.
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Mr Tschopp and his committee are already looking into a quite separate allegation that the Swiss spymaster had links with a biological and chemical weapons programme built up by South Africa's apartheid regime.
The U.S. signed on to two accords banning biological and chemical weapons and, pursuant to those treaties, has eliminated all offensive viruses and toxins and is in the process of destroying its stocks of chemical munitions.
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Now, now at a time when we're trying to get other people to give up nuclear and biological and chemical weapons, they are trying to develop two new nuclear weapons which they say we might use first.
In a damning report the MoD said its own officials failed to respond to a fax sent by the Department of Health, warning them against vaccines taken by British troops to protect them against biological and chemical weapons.
European foreign ministers who met in Luxembourg on Monday warned that closer trade and economic links with Iran would have to be matched by Iranian efforts to stop terrorism and the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
So it is always best to remember that we have to try to work for peace in the Middle East, for peace in Northern Ireland, for an end to terrorism, for protections against biological and chemical weapons being used in the first place.
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Even if, unlikely as it seems at present, Mr Hussein agrees to give carte blanche to Unmovic to scour Iraq for evidence of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, that may not be enough to convince everyone that the country is no longer a threat.
In the meantime, Saddam has not wavered from his ambition for hegemonic control over the Persian Gulf and the Arab world: He has invested vast amounts of his national treasure in building inventories of biological and chemical weapons and the means to deliver them to targets near and far.
Clinton...find that the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ('weapons of mass destruction') and of the means of delivering such weapons, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat .
Likewise, the administration's declaration that it would not unleash nukes on non-weapons states that lived by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was criticised either for being unwise (because it curtailed deterrence against biological and chemical weapons), or misleading (because it is so full of loopholes that it does not curtail deterrence much at all).
On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, the President declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) and the means of delivering such weapons.
The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons.
An agreement to destroy within 30 days and under international supervision all biological, chemical and nuclear weapons-related facilities and stockpiles and ballistic missile sites.
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In addition, Russia continues to violate its international arms control obligations, including -- but not limited to -- the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, the INF Treaty, the START I Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and various chemical weapons conventions.
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